Automatic loom-starter



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AUTOMATIC LOOM STARTER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, 1920.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Fgbp 22, 1921,

Application. filed March 15, 1920. serial No. 365,933.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I; JAMES H. GossE'rT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anderson, in the county of Anderson and State of South Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Automatic Loom-Starters, of which the following is a specification;

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and eilective means for startmg one or a plurality of looms and similar machines from a central stationiunder such conditions that the starting operation'may be under the personal control of a superinj tendent or foreman to avoid dependence upon individual loom attendants or'operators and to insure the starting of all of the looms which are to be operated at a given predetermined time with a view to systematizing the work and controlling to that extent the activities of the employees and with this object in View the invention consists in a construction, combination and relation of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of the starting mechanism applied in the operative position to a loom shipper.

Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view on the plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the cylinder and its associated parts showing the piston in dotted lines. 7 g

The device consists essentially of a cylinder 10 having a base plate or bracket 11 adapted to be attached to a loom side indicated at 12, a piston 13 being mounted in said cylinder and having its rod 14 provided with a tappet block 15 for enga ement with a collar 16 which is slidingly tted upon said rod in the path of the tappet. Said collar is connected by a stem 17 with a sleeve 18 fitted upon the shipper lever 19 mounted in the usual way on a bracket 20 and having its upper free end provided with a. shipper handle 21. operating in connection with aslotted guide 22 and adapted to be locked in the active or loom starting position shown inFig. 1. The shipper arm or lever as in the ordinary practice is yieldingly held in its neutral or loom stopping position by means of a coiled spring 23- which is adapted to return said lever to its loom stoppingposition in the event that it should be released, or any disarrangement of the loom structure or element should occur.

Communicating with the cylinder 10 is an air supply pipe 24 provided adjacent to each loom with a cut-off valve 25, so that any. loom may be cut out of a system of starting mechanism including a plurality of machlnes, said air supply pipe being in communlcation with a main supply line adapted to be controlled at a central station as from the ofiice of the factory. 4

' It will be understood that previous to the starting hourthe valve 25 of such looms as are not to be used being closed, the opening of the controlling valve to admit pressure to the ma1n a1r supply line at the hour of starting will resultin a distribution of pressure to the several looms which are to be used and such pressure acting upon the several pistons 13 will advance the latter and through the action of thetappet blocks 15 coming into contact with the collar 16, the shipper levers of all of the looms will be thrown to the loom starting position. The pressure in the supply pipes may then be relieved to permit of the return of the pistons to their normal or neutral positions .to the end that in the event of the release of the shipper lever of a loom it will be free to return to its neutral position to stop the operation of that particular loom.

Having described the invention what is claimed is 1 1. An automatic loom starter having a' the piston rod in the path of said tappet block and operatively connected with the shipper of the loom.

2. An automatic loom starter having a cylinder and means for communicating pressure thereto, a piston operating in said cylinder and having its rod provided with a tappet block, a collar slidably mounted upon the piston rod in the path of said tap pet block, a sleeve attachable to a shipper lever, and a stem connecting said sleeve and collar for the communication of motion from the latter to the former. V

3. An automatic loom starting mechanism having a cylinder provided with means for attachment to a loom side adjacent to the shipper lever, a valved air supply pipe in communication with said cylinder, a piston operating in the cylinder and having its rod provided with a tappet block, a

collar shdingly mounted upon the piston T JAMES H. GOSSETT. 

